LOS ANGELES -- Slick on the hair gel, break out the pink poodle skirts and black leather jackets, and rev up that T-Bird. America's original high-school musical is looking for two new stars.
Boxcar Books is hosting a reception from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday to celebrate the kick-off of its monthlong exhibit. The reception will feature paintings from artists in the Horizons Art Therapy Program at the Center for Behavioral Health, a Bloomington-based nonprofit mental-health association.
Orchestras are musical groups made up of string, woodwind, brass and percussion instruments. IU has six different orchestras.
Don't resist the arts. They're not here to hurt, bore or intimidate. In fact, the arts exist solely for pleasure and to enhance the world around us. The arts are everywhere, affecting us daily -- from a Chopin prelude playing in the background of a movie to the choreography in your favorite music video. The arts date back to the beginning of time and will continue to thrive as long as people have a desire to create and express.
The IU Art Museum will celebrate the holidays with Bloomington's St. Charles Catholic School fourth- and fifth-grade choirs. The Holiday Concert and Open House will be from noon to 5 p.m. Dec. 17, with the choir performing at 2 p.m. The St. Charles school choirs will perform under the direction of Sandra Freund and Kathy Gorr. The choirs will present a program of holiday carols featuring hand chimes, according to an IU Art Museum press release. Light refreshments will be available after the concert, with a gallery tour to follow. Nan Brewer, the Lucienne M. Glaubinger Curator of Works on Paper, will lead the tour of toy-related imagery in the first floor Gallery of Art of the Western World.
Smithsonian american art museum -- Washington, D.c. ADDRESS DON'T MISS: "Vaquero" by Luis Jimenez. This equestrian statue sits on a plinth outside the museum. It is a 16.5 feet tall, blue fiberglass construction and a curious mix of traditional and popular art.
I arrived "fashionably early" to a party Thursday night. The apartment was vacuumed, decorated and blasting "Fergalicious" so loud that I could barely contain myself. I watched as the party's host put a padlock on his closet and questioned if he should wear the grey V-neck or the white one. Oh, this was no ordinary party.
Cardinal Stage Company's production of "A Year With Frog and Toad," nominated for three Tony Awards, will be presented at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 15, 16, 22 and 23, with matinees at 2 p.m. on the Saturday showings.
Children dined with Santa and received a little "Entertainment with Love" from an IU club Saturday at the Sterling House of Bloomington.
Educators have ensured Shakespeare's vitality by keeping his works a staple of literature curriculums -- often to the chagrin of students throughout the English-speaking world. But now, IU professor Edward Castronova is attempting to make Shakespeare more relatable: He's digitized the Bard's works and created an interactive Shakespearean world inside of a computer.
Melissa Block's Friday night will be filled with plenty of Christmas tunes. The IU freshman and 12 other women, known collectively as the a cappella singing group Ladies First, will sing in a holiday concert 8 p.m. Friday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater.
The IU Jacobs School of Music has a long-standing, time-tested strategy of bringing the best available talents to the school. The hope is they will share their skills and worldly wisdom with the school's up-and-coming performers. This year proved no exception, when the voice faculty welcomed to its ranks three distinguished sopranos: Carol Vaness, Scharmel Schrock and Sylvia McNair. Each has already enjoyed several decades of singing and teaching, and each has had her fair share of success as well as difficulty. And now, each calls one of the country's finest academic music institutions home.
A Broadway actor, who played the beast in the musical "Beauty and the Beast," pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he had sexual contact several times with a 15-year-old girl.
The Camerata Orchestra Series, now in its 18th season, will present its "Glitz" show at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Carmichael Hall of Bloomington South High School.
The conductor gave the signal, the band stood up and the music of the annual "Chimes of Christmas" filled the halls of the IU Auditorium.
Audiences resisted the urge to get up and dance at the A-221 and African American Dance Company final exam. The soulful and rhythmic vibe filled the Willkie Auditorium on Tuesday night. The program opened with A-221 students performing "Lamba," which "illustrates the journey of Mansa Musa across the desert on a pilgrimage to Mecca," according to the program. The second dance was choreographed by Iris Rosa, associate professor and the dance company's director. She said the song by Spanky Wilson had a 1970s feel and inspired the choreography she created for the dance company's performance in "Potpourri of Arts." "It made me want to dance," said Colleen Welch, a modern dance major in the audience. She said was interested in taking one of the courses in the future. Brynne Mitchell, also a modern dance major, agreed that it was hard to resist the urge to get up and dance. She said that she recognized a lot of modern dance in the performance. "I had the jiggle leg," she said. "It's hard to be a dancer and come and not dance."
The words "Baby Ruth," "Bueller!" and "I would have expected a little more from a varsity letterman" will echo through the newly renovated Whittenberger Auditorium inside the Indiana Memorial Union for the next three nights.
Hand-crafted jewelry and other objects are for sale today and Friday and up for auction Friday night at the School of Fine Arts Gallery.
There is only one student group that guarantees to "make you trickle down your pants." That group is called "Trickle Down Effect" and it will be performing tonight on the second floor of the Indiana Memorial Union in the State Room East.
Mary Wennerstrom was struck by an odd sensation upon receiving her latest academic commendation. "It's a little like reading your own obituary," she said with her characteristic laugh.
